From Juvenile Detention to Million-Dollar Coach | Aundre Blasingame Story

In this powerful episode of Career Coaching Secrets, host David Swin sits down with Aundre Blasingame — a celebrity chef turned high-performance coach — to uncover how discipline, consistency, and persistence can transform not just careers, but entire lives.

Aundre shares his inspiring journey from a troubled youth to becoming a championship-level coach and business mentor. Discover how he applied lessons from coaching football and culinary excellence into building scalable business systems that help entrepreneurs, chefs, and professionals break free from burnout and unlock their true potential.

💡 Learn how mindset shifts, faith, and daily discipline can take you from the field to the boardroom — and why being coachable is the ultimate key to success.

Whether you're a coach, entrepreneur, or someone striving for growth, this episode is packed with real-life lessons and actionable insights to help you win in business and life.

Connect with

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aundreblasingame/
Website: https://heavenlycateringdfw.com/

Transcript

Aundre Blasingame 0:00

2018, when we started that program, that was really flipped because we had one, two, three, four, five, about six a lot between 2018 and 2020. And 2018, it was like, okay, what I've been doing for years, what I did in coaching youth, I basically applied the same principles that I taught them in coaching from the field to the boardroom. That was the biggest thing. I was like, these principles, I teach them about discipline and accountability and study and consistency and persistency was the two things that I taught on defense, right? I said, because if you're persistent, that means you have faith. That means you actually believe in what it is you're trying to achieve.

Davis Nguyen 0:43

Welcome to Career Coaching Secrets, the podcast where we talk with successful career coaches on how they built their success and the hard lessons they learned along the way. My name is David Swin, and I'm the founder of Purple Circle, where we help career coaches scale their business to $100,000 years, $100,000 months, and even $100,000 weeks. Before Purple Circle, I've grown several seven and eight-figure career coaching businesses myself and have been a consultant at two career coaching businesses that are doing over $100 million each. Whether you're an established coach or building your practice for the first time, go discover the secrets to elevating your coaching business.

Pedro 1:15

Welcome to Career Coaching Secrets Podcast. I'm Pedro, and today I'm joined by Andre Blazingame, a celebrity chef and competition food sport champion whose 30 plus years journey from Walt Disney World in turn to coaching teams at major corporations like Dr. Pepper, Keurig, and American Airlines has shaped his unique approach to developing winning mindsets. What makes Andre's perspective fascinating is how he combines his culinary mastery with systematic business coaching, creating scalable processes that transform not just individual performance but entire team dynamics. Andre's influence extends from launching fusion culinary programs internationally with Rotary to hosting flavor and a budget on Roku, but his core mission remains helping people unlock their voice and unleash their power across wealth, health, and relationships. His coaching approach, influenced by Dr. Eric Thomas, focuses on shifting mindsets from limitation to abundance, proving that the same principles that create championship level culinary excellence can drive success in any arena. Welcome to the show, Andre.

Aundre Blasingame 2:37

Appreciate the wonderful intro, Pedro. I'm a thing I've heard it red so eloquently in a long time.

Pedro 2:44

Man, I can only I I only have you to blame to it, you know. You want to blend an intro, you know. So, you know, it's great to have you, Andre. Let's start with that. And and I always love to rewind a bit, you know, go back to the origin story because every coach has that moment where they look at their life and say, yeah, I guess this is what I'm doing now, right? So when was that for you, Andre?

Aundre Blasingame 3:05

My origin story?

Pedro 3:06

Yeah.

Aundre Blasingame 3:06

So my origin story starts way back in in my youth. Most people, especially on the culinary or even in coaching, you you think about what shaped you as a youth. When I was a youth, I wanted to be a professional football player. So I had no aspirations of being a chef, going into the hospitality industry, coaching hospitality, coaching anything at that, at that matter. And um, in my teen years, I got into some trouble, and I spent about a year inside a juvenile detention center. I was about the age of 15, and I was just running the streets, dealing with a lot of different trauma in my life. While I was in there, I realized, you know, I had made a promise to my mother who had passed away when I was 10. I made a promise that, you know, I was gonna graduate, I was gonna go to college, I'm gonna do all the way things that she wanted me to do. And so when I got out, I turned my life around. And my mentor, I always got to get a shout out to my mentor, General White. He's also a fat. He was the one that told me, he said, are you a product of your environment, or do you want to be, or do you want to be a benefit to your environment? I always forget exactly how he said it. You know, it's like you don't have to be a product of the environment. You can be a success from your environment. That's what he said. Ask me, would I like to travel international? Now, I grew up in very urban, low-income neighborhoods, right, in my city. And so the idea of a youth being able to travel international, especially in the team, something that was very, very far-fetched. It was expensive, it's not something common. My my parents didn't know, you know, my mom didn't do it. My father did, he was in the military. And so on my first internship, I went to Barbados. And in Barbados, we stayed at a hotel called the uh Golden Sands. And at the Golden Sands Hotel, we had to work all the areas, the front desk, the pool, the ground speaker. And I got an opportunity to be in the kitchen. And while in the kitchen, it just felt natural. You know, there's there's with God, I feel God gives something gives certain people certain gifts that are natural. And until you realize it, you know, you don't know that it's natural for you. Like some people naturally can sing, right? But then some people can hold a tune. And if you teach them over a series of years, they can become great singers, right? And so I just had a natural talent for being in the kitchen. Fast forward where they got my first job. I was baking bread for a local tangent job. I was coming after food, baking bread for them. That's what my love for culinary stunt. And then from culinary, I went to work in Houston for hospitality, restaurant management. Um, I was manager from fine dining establishments all the way down to fast food. The only area I believe I haven't worked in has been working on a cruise ship, as far as the chef is concerned. Um, I decided to go back to school, get some more education, got offered an internship to work at Walt Disney World in Orlando. So I moved to Orlando, Florida for a year and worked at the Grand Floridian. And then from there, that's when the culinary life really took off and coaching. Because when I came back to my hometown, I started coaching football because I had played football all my life. And one of my great stories, and this is great for me as a coach, I was a decisive coordinator for this team. And it was my first year coaching, and the other coach had been coaching for like six, seven years. He had never won a championship, he had never won anything, and he wanted me to come in and run the defense. I run a very simple but effective defense when it comes to football. And so I implemented that defense. The first year, we didn't win one football, we went zero, goose in, not a one. Very next year, with just about the same kids, we went um 12-0 and we won the city championship in just one year. And he said, I've been coaching this team, you know, these kids six, seven years, and I've never won a championship or even made it past the first round of the playoff. And he said, you came in and made a few adjustments, and here we are. And so in that five-year run, I don't think we ever had another losing season after that. We did win another championship, but we never had another losing season. And that's when I knew that coaching was a calling for me to be able to do it. Okay. I love the origin story. Yeah, that's the origin story to get to where coaching truly started. I actually started coaching football. Then it turned into business, and then it turned into helping chefs get out of that 12 to 15 hour day and be able to still have sanity, keep their relationships, and not be not be stuck with the multitude of abyss that my industry gives people.

Pedro 7:43

Okay. Well, first of all, I love the promise you made to your mom. I gotta I gotta highlight that, right? The power of moms out there, okay. And that uh eventually puts you on the right track. So I love that. And but I want to understand one thing, you know, uh Andre, because the shift that happens. You start coaching those kids, right? And then you move to business and all that, and you kind of mentioned it. But when did you realize, okay, from I'm helping people to I'm building a real business around coaching, you know? When did that shift happened?

Aundre Blasingame 8:14

That shift happened 2018. So nine, what is that, eight, nine years ago? 2018. I had started investing in different real estate things because I was had become an entrepreneur, I had started my catering company first, and the catering company's going well, so I started taking my my my my dividends and started investing in different properties. And so I invested in a business, a hair salon business. Me and uh Carolina business owners. We put our money together in roughly about 2012 to about 2017, we built three hair salons with over 100 plus hairstyling. When we got to that plateau of having that new, we wanted to turn those hairstylists because they were all independent. They didn't work for us like most hair salons have employed. They were all independent. All they did was we were in the real estate game. Let me say it like that. We weren't in the hair game at all. We bought the building, you paid us rent to use this space because it's a requirement in the state that you license and you got to be in a building that's license. So we just house the building. So we came up with an idea to create a business program for them so that they can be, you know, entrepreneurs, have the right structure together where they're not paying double tax. Because in the US, when you have an LLC or a business and you're self-employed and you're the only person in that, you're double taxed. You know, you got to pay your regular tax, then you got to pay the tax with the business, right? And so we didn't want them to fall into that because they were losing money, but they were self-employed. So we created business programs for them to have the ability to not follow in their double tax rent, understand saving and investing. And we also gave them the opportunity to become business owners and own their own salon because we were hoping to franchise. So 2018, when we started that program, that was when it really clipped because we had one, two, three, four, five, about six salon owners between 2018 and 2020. And it was like, okay, what I've been doing for years, what I did in coaching youth, I basically applied the same principles that I taught them in coaching from the field to the boardroom. That was the biggest thing. It was like these principles I teach them about discipline and accountability and study and consistency and persistency was the two things that I taught on defense, right? I said, because if you're persistent, that means you have faith. That means you actually believe in what it is you're trying to achieve. And if you're consistent, you'll see the results. Because if you're consistently bad, you're gonna consistently see bad results. But if you're consistently good, you're gonna consistently see good results. So when I applied that, it was 2018 that I did that that realization that I can really I've always been helping people because I'm in the hospitality industry, but I was like, I can really maximize on this and really help business owners to not be in that rug or in that mindset of I'm going to fail. I would piece in the mindset of I'm going to succeed. You know, failure is an option, it's just not the only option, right? You know, you you have to understand that we don't take losses and business, we take learning options. You always win because you learn. And incorporating that mindset into coaching, that's what it was for me. 2018, and I was like, Yeah, this is definitely something that uh that I was born to do. I've had years of training in training, when got certified that I would so that you know people would see that it's a certified culture. So we see some training on some other multi-million dollar coaches so that people would people love credibility. Kind of like the difference between having a master's degree and not having one. I look less at the degree when it comes to the person and the knowledge, but the degree tells me something. It shows that you can be persistent and consistent in achieving a goal because it takes time. You know, two years to become a doctor here in the U.S., eight years to become a scientist here in the U.S. Four years just to you know get a bachelor's degree in whatever science. And when you complete it, that takes persistence and consistency. It takes some discipline, and it takes some skill and will, right? You put all those together, success is definitely for you every time.

Pedro 12:45

You know, you remind me of something, a movie I watched a while ago. You know that McDonald's movie with Ray Kroc? There's a mo I'm not sure if you ever watched that, but you you remind me of that with the hair saloon stuff. It's like his talking with his lawyer or something like that, and uh the lawyer says, You're not in the hamburger fast food business, you're in the real estate business. And uh, I'm not sure if that rings a bell, but it was something that the way you presented me reminded me of the same style of business, right? Yeah, but I'm curious.

Aundre Blasingame 13:16

Rick Croc.

Pedro 13:17

Ray Crock.

Aundre Blasingame 13:17

Yeah, Ray Croc, exactly. Started off selling milkshakes, right? See, we all knew the story and read the story. You know, he was selling milkshake. He found his hamburger guys that had an incredible system, right? And he's like, we could duplicate it. We put milkshakes in your place, you're gonna make more money. And the the biggest problem was, and and this is a nugget for anybody listening. If you don't have the ability to evolve and grow, you may not want to go into business. You may not want to go into culture. Because the problem with the McDonald's brothers, and I shout out to the movie, it was an excellent depiction of what was going on. Ray continued to evolve. He started off with guilt. Then he started, he saw that there was an opportunity for growth, right? He presented them with the opportunity to grow. They didn't want to grow like that. They were happy with their little corner, then the two-store. They were great with that. They didn't want more, they were comfortable. Ray was like, okay, I don't want to do it this way, but I see something that's a billion-dollar industry possible. Some of his taxes that he used afterwards, even there was nothing wrong with it. Morning, you know, I for me, I I wouldn't have gone about it that way because of the kind of morals that I have. But I understand in business, he saw that opportunity. And opportunity only comes in a season, right? Whether you're prepared or not. And once that season is over, that opportunity goes away. So you have to be prepared in every season for an opportunity because the season of opportunity is going to be unprepared for you, right? And so all he did was take their idea, trademark it, copyrighted, branded it, and five places to duplicate it. They didn't want to do that. They ended up getting a million dollar check when their family right now could still be having checks on checks on. They could be one of those Rockefellers and Balt and Vanderbilt type families, but they didn't want to grow. And so if you stay stagnant and you don't want to grow, I I I would suggest that business is not for you. It's just not, you know, because you you're not going to be successful if you're going to stay the way that you are. So that's just that's just the nugget for the people going forward.

Pedro 15:27

Yeah, yeah. Thanks. I think I I kind of kind of hit that right, I guess. Now, after you you got rolling, right, especially in the coaching space, like who are the people that kept showing up? You know, I I understand you started with the football kids and then you moved to business. But I want to understand the ones you realize, okay, this is my tribe. This is the people I can help the most with coaching. Who are they?

Aundre Blasingame 15:48

So I have two tribes. My first tribe was my culinary family, right? There was short, short info on the industry. If you know anything about watching, you know, your Gordon Ramsey's on television, right? If you look at Gordon Ramsay and see the wrinkle on his forehead, right? That's what we call stressors. And you'll see that from a lot of people in the culinary industry because not only do we have to always provide as much perfection as possible, we have to deal with anywhere from 50 to 100, sometimes 400 different personalities every single day. You're a chef in the back, you got to deal with all your staff. You're a general manager in the front of the house, you got to deal with customers that come in. This is constant. So it weighs heavy on your mind. It becomes a stressor. The hours are long. Most restaurants are open a minimum of 12 hours a day. Most of the time, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. is pretty standard. So what I noticed in the industry is that a lot of my chef friends were being burnt out. Because of that burnt out, they would do things to supplement their performance. Instead of going to the gym and working out, you know, energy drinks, right? Something to keep them going. Or, you know, sometimes they would go into, you know, other paraphernalia that's a little bit harder. Things to keep them going and keep them pumped. And I was like, this is going to destroy quite a few of my friends, right? Because it's burnout is real. And burnout on top of having an addiction, on top of taking care of the family, on top of being married and taxes and everything else that goes on in the world, it weighs heavy. So my first trial I connected with was all my executive chefs and sous chefs that I knew, and I pitched to them, if I could show you how to do the same 12-hour tip with half the stress, would you be interested in having a conversation? If I could show you how to maximize your time and minimize your overhead, would you be interested in talking to me? If I could show you how to use a certain principle, I call it the Jesus principle. If I could show you how to use this certain principle of team building to give yourself more internal peace, and I've had very few to come in. And developing that program, then my tribe became restaurant owners, right? Because they go through the same burnout. They're the ones selling out the half a million dollars, $750,000, $2 million for these restaurant projects, right? And I always work on the person first, not the business. So that was my coaching style. I said, let me talk to you about what's going on with you in your life, right? I said, the business is going to be the business. The business is what it is. It's going to be ups and downs, stuff is going to be expensive, it's going to be high. But what about the person? Because work life balance is a myth. Yeah, you heard me say it correctly. Work life balance has been a cliche for so long. There is not a work-life balance because most people go to work eight hours a day. That means there's 16 hours a day left. If a third of your day consists of work and another third consists of work, that means you have eight hours for you, your significant other, and your children. There's never going to be a balance because all 24 hours is life. And if I could show you how to balance out your life, then you will see massive increases in everything else that you've been neglecting because you've been focusing on one end. And that's how I built my first try. And then my second try came from that because other people were seeing it in other businesses that what I was teaching was less about culinary, even though most of the stuff I use in culinary, I use food references, food backgrounds, even when I would train people to remember things, it was it was called the recipe. And it would be divided out literally, like, okay, you need a teaspoon of patience, you need a tablespoon of, you know, you need a tablespoon of forgiveness, you know, you need a quart of water. It would be literal stuff. And it turned into the second tribe became open to to just about anybody in business and uh my Christian foundation and my faith in the background.

Pedro 20:12

Okay, that makes sense. Now, how do people usually find you, you know, Andre? Um, not sure which tribe you want to talk about, but in a general way of saying things, how do people marketing-wise tend to connect with you?

Aundre Blasingame 20:25

So the the best way to connect, you actually want to give you social media handles or just have people normally connect with me?

Pedro 20:31

No, we can uh do that by the end. It's more about the way people tend to connect with you in the first place, you know?

Aundre Blasingame 20:38

So the the one of one of the most popular ways that they connect with me, of course, is LinkedIn. Um, I've been on LinkedIn for quite some time, and I've been been fortunate to go through the fire with LinkedIn, as you will, and and actually surpass that five-figure mark of followers, right? So everybody knows on LinkedIn it's extremely difficult to do. I think I'm I think I'm somewhere under 11,000. Um maybe we'll do a separate podcast and talk about how that two and a half year climb was building LinkedIn. It was it was brutal. But it was extremely worth it because most of my connections are with Pearl Based. And because I have such a large following and so many people that follow my newsletter, a lot of people will contact me. That could be the most popular way. Now, of course, I have some status because I have a television show. I travel all over the all over the world and do different cooking events, some high-end people. So you see me around. So a lot of times people are like, oh, let's see, I'm Andre. I wonder if he's still doing coaching, or vice versa. Most people then say, you know, that's coach Andre. What if he's still cooking? You know? And it's like, yes, I still do both. My my coaching and cooking are a huge combination because the discipline you have to have to create a dish is the same discipline you have to have to create your dish and to find your recipe.

Pedro 21:57

Okay, now let's do an exercise, okay? Pretend I contact you contacted you on LinkedIn or watch your show. Anyhow, we end up uh agreeing terms. I we see alignment, okay. I'm now a client, let's call it like that. And I want to understand the perspective from a client, okay, the point of view of them, how working with you looks like and what are the expected outcomes.

Aundre Blasingame 22:21

Fantastic. So working with me is going to be an exciting, incredible journey based on your personality, right? One of the first things I'm going to do is I have a different series of tests. One of the ones that I use is called a flight assessment, which is very similar to a disc, except with the flight assessment, because I'm in the hospitality industry. The flight assessment takes an assessment of who you are naturally and who you are adapted to. So natural is who you act or how you act without any precursors that are going on. Like it's not a stressful situation. This is how you show up to work. This is how you act when you're normally around anybody else. And then there's four different benefactors that go with each or characteristics that go with each one of those. And then there's a way that you act adaptively, which is normally how you act when you're being washed, when you're stressed, when you're tired, things of that nature. Once you take that in the very beginning, I have a conversation with you first to make sure that you and I are compatible coach and coaches, right? I know coaching isn't a word, but I like to use it because of the dictionary makes up words all the time, right? So when I'm when I'm coaching somebody, that's one of the first conversations that I have. I have them take that assessment so that we can understand how to communicate with each other. Because I can communicate with all styles. But if I don't know your style, then it's going to be hard for me to communicate where you are. If you're an introvert or an extrovert, whether you're passive or you're aggressive, you know, whether you're super talkative or you're super quiet. Yeah, I can address each one of those, right? After you take the assessment, I have a conversation with you because I have one rule. You must be cultivated. Everything else can be taught. I can I can teach you quantum physics, even though I don't do quantum physics, but I can teach you quantum physics, I can teach you calculus, I can teach you how to read a recipe. But what I can teach you is in those times when you don't understand, are you willing to receive feedback on how you can improve? And I usually have a few testers because I'll ask them questions about, you know, simple questions like, so what is your ideal thing? What you're doing currently ideal? Or if money wasn't an issue, what would you do? Some people will say, you know, um, I I would, you know, I would go fly kites all day if money wasn't an issue. Okay. So I'm like, okay, now I understand how to coach this particular person. What they're looking for is freedom. They're not looking for a bigger paper. They're not looking for more money. Because if they say, because I told them if money was no issue, what would you do? I would go fly kite. How do I figure out how do I get them from where they are now to the dream of flying that kite and not be dead? And then some people's like, you know, my dream, I'm never gonna stop working. You know, I don't understand what retirement is, right? So I'm like, okay, average lifespan is about 75 years. How can I get them from where they are now with the mindset of not ever working to at least have enough balance where they still have health to achieve that goal of not working? See, it's not about me trying to change who they are, it's helping me change their mindset so they can adapt to achieve their goal. And that's how I connect with people. It's not about what I want. You know, for me, somebody tells me I want to work until I'm 80. In my mind, no, you don't, right? And then I think about it. It's not my goal. I don't want to work to 80. That doesn't mean they don't want to work to 80. So instead of me trying to fight and change their mindset like a lot, like a lot of coaches would do, I lean into it. And I give them tools that will help them be better at achieving that goal. In the hopes that somewhere in that goal, they grow, right? And maybe that goal changes a bit. Maybe that goal goes from, you know what, I don't think I want to work to 80. Maybe I want to work till 60 and spend the next 20 years traveling the world. Or starting a garden, right? Playing with my grandkids if I have any, right? Started to get them to dream again, right? That's what having a paradigm shift in the mind. We get so focused on what we've been taught from our youth till we get to about our 20s, to our 20s and 30s that we get set in the ways and we don't need we stop dreaming like kids anymore. I bring back that dream because bringing back that dream unlocks the happiness to achieve your goal. And so that's how I start with connecting. So yeah, you take the assessment, we have conversation, I check the check your ability to be comfortable by asking who, what you would be if money was not in it, and then we work on how to achieve that. So that's the that's the process. It's called unlocking your voice, it's realizing who you are and what it is or what your goals are, reshaping your I'm sorry, unleashing your power, right? Because you have the ability to get abundance. And then reshaping your mindset, bringing you back into an alignment to achieve your goal, not mine. My goal is to help you achieve your goal.

Pedro 27:19

Okay. Thanks for sharing that. That's very insightful. I really like that, especially with the unlocking, leaching uh the power, you know, and seeing if they're coachable and there's alignment and all that. Now, I'm curious where you're taking all this, Andre. Looking ahead. Where do you see the business going? Are you thinking about scaling, hiring, or is there a next step you're excited about?

Aundre Blasingame 27:39

So there are a few next steps I'm excited about because it's been a long is not the right goal. It's been a tedious journey to get to where I am as a coach. The goal for me in coaching was always to help others achieve the best version of themselves. That was always the goal. I never had a dollar amount of goal, right? On the back end, of course, on my business plan, I have one, but my goal was not that. My goal was to give, because the law of reciprocation is always about if you give, you must receive. It may not come from who you give it to, but it's going to come back to you somehow. It's a it's a little story I always tell people. I said, you know, the mind is cultivated much like a farmer does with land. The land is perfect, the land is great. What the farmer plants in it determines the crop. Whether the the farmer plants a poisonous plant or it plants uh a flower or a fruit or vegetable for the greatness. The land doesn't care. The land is your mind. The land doesn't care. Your mind doesn't care what you put in it. It's your choice to put in and cultivate it. Because if you put in poison into your mind, guess what? Your mind is gonna cultivate all the poison you can. But if you put in good seed and cultivate that, your mind is gonna cultivate all that. And so what I see going forward that I'm really excited about is having the opportunity to bring in more coaches. I'm expanding my team currently. My VA is actually helping me complete my my book. It's called Taste and See, right? And so the Taste and Sea is a 21-day mindset shift where you do seven days of voice, seven days of power, and seven days of mindset. And what makes the book effective I haven't listened to this podcast, see somebody do this before my book is completed. They stole it from this podcast. Okay, at the end of one-day count, at the end of each week, there is a recipe that coincides with what you've learned the first seven days. Your goal for your consistency, your persistence, your discipline, skill, and will, because those are the five principles that I teach. Discipline, consistency, persistency, will. You complete the recipe, you can actually cook recipe. So you actually have to do that part to complete. If you complete that, you have now unlocked the first part of your consistency and persistency to achieve your goal. Same thing happens in this in the second seven days, same thing in the third seven days. Where at the end of it, you now actually have a complete meal that you can serve to your family. What's the test of the opportunity and persistence you are? Because it's an appetizer, it's an i train of the right. And nobody has a coaching book that not only applies what you've taught and read and actually put it into a tangible form that you create. Most of the time, most coaching books, if you read any of them, they have you do a task, right? Write down this, do that, achieve this, write it down, listen to it every day. Those things are wonderful, right? But just imagine if you do the same thing in my book. Write this down, repeat to yourself two times a day, come back and look at it. At the end of the week, I want you to create this recipe. I want you to create this particular recipe and base it on every day that you just learned. All right. Well, this one says taste and see what I can make with my hands. I need to do this with my hands. I need to focus with my eyes. I need to think with my mind. I need to make sure I have the appropriate tools so I can achieve the success. A lot of times, people achieve success, they have the wrong tools. Very, very pertinent. I'm excited about that, you know, coming up and finishing that and being able to turn that into a platform where I can teach other chefs to go teach that book and turn it into a tour. You know, chefs are getting extremely popular in the last ten to fifteen years outside of the kitchen. You know, for for people watching for anything or Paula or you know, a Carla I cannot think of Carla. Uh Chef Carla that does favorite chef competition. All these chefs are now on platforms where they can in a sense go on tour like a music person. So just imagine if I gave the tool to be able to go duplicate, take this own recipe, charge people to sell out right and be able to do their craft, love doing their craft, but also educate people and pay for them. So that is what I'm excited and about and what's going next. So you heard it here first. I have not said this on anybody else's podcast. Nobody else. So, like I said, if if you see this idea happen, it's because you heard it here first. Somebody heard it and decided they were gonna duplicate it. And that is a form of flattery, so I'm not I'm not bothered. I'm not bothered.

Pedro 32:54

I love that, man. That sounds exciting, you know. And if someone listening wants to connect with you, Andre, or follow your work, you know, where can people find you and connect with you?

Aundre Blasingame 33:03

My most popular place, first, I would tell you go to Google and Google my first and last name. Second, I would say go to LinkedIn, which is is LinkedIn at Andre Blasting Game, my first and last name. It's A-U-N-D-R-E. Especially if you're listening, paying attention to the road and not actually looking at us on video, right? And then my social media handles are on IG is Gray Blast, which is my nickname, and Game Coaching is my handle for the coaching side. Also, Kingdom Factor. You can go to a blasting games.kingdomfactor.us, and you'll be able to pull up just about everything for me as well. Just like on LinkedIn. It's the same thing on LinkedIn. You go to one of those two, you'll be able to find me my Roku channel, you'll be able to find me on the uh Dallas local channel, and you'll be able to find all my other social media handles. I made it real simple for people because I'm the only person with that name in the entire world. So I've researched it and Googled it. There's not a lot of people that have my first name, and of course I got plenty of family with the last name, but I'm the only one that has that common. Okay.

Pedro 34:11

You know, Andre Blazing Game, I'm gonna give the full name. So in case you're wondering if you people want to Google, I'm just gonna say it again. Parts of this chat really stood out to me, and I'm gonna lay them out for you, okay? I I feel the need to highlight. I think first one, whenever we're talking about the origin story, I really like to dive into the origin story, and that's one of the reasons. It's like we started this and coaching football kids, right? And turning them into city champions. And from there, you move to your, you know, you looked at your own practice, your own chef uh background. You're like, hey, you know, these guys might need some help. So because I've been there and done that. So I love the skin in the game. I love how natural that worked, you know. I love football. Oh, I'm gonna coach some kids, you know. I'm in the in the culinary, you know, background and all that industry, and hey, I'm gonna help them, you know. So it's so natural, it's organic, you know. It's not like, oh, I'm gonna reinvent the wheel. It's not that you've been there, done that. So I I really like the the origin story. I would say also to highlight the two words you mentioned, you know, the persistency and consistency, how you framed persistency as a belief, right? As faith in yourself that you can do it. I think that's very crucial, a powerful reminder. And how the consistency bit also plays out, right? And the results-oriented thing. It's like, hey, we're doing the right thing. It sounds like this is working, let's keep doing it a little bit more. We improve, but it's like, hey, keep it consistent, keep it going, you know, and believing in yourself. Last but not least, I would say it's uh when you mentioned that you gotta be coachable, right? I can teach you any skill in the world, but if you're not coachable, this is gonna be a hard problem to solve that I cannot solve it for you. It's a two-way streak, right? So people need to put in the work, you're not doing for themselves, but they gotta be open-minded and understand that this is a process. Sometimes it's not gonna happen overnight. But understanding and believing in themselves, you know, and and having that avoiding whenever someone tells me they gotta be coachable, I always think about victim mentality, right? It's always going back to, oh, and if nothing works for me because of X, Y, and Z, because of circumstances, because of, you know, the market or whatever. Yeah, but what are we gonna do? What we're gonna do about that, right? What are we gonna do about that? Guys, um, yeah, this is my long-winded way of saying that I appreciate what you do, and I appreciate you being here and sharing so openly today, okay? Great having you on.

Davis Nguyen 36:43

That's it for this episode of Career Coaching Secrets. If you enjoyed this conversation, you can subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening to this episode to catch future episodes. This podcast was brought to you by Purple Circle, where we help career coaches get out of business to $100,000 a year, $100,000 a month, or even $100,000 a week, all about learning out and making sure that you're making an impact and having a life that you want. Learn more about our community and how we can help you with Purple Circle.